Furniture Repair and Restore

The leather binding (made from rawhide) hand deteriorated, dried out and hand become brittle. The new binding was made from natural veg tanned leather.

This is a simple Workshop/Bar Stool, which was covered in PVC. Inspired by Bettega Vaneta, I decided to replace the original cover with this woven pattern. I cut the legs a bit shorter in order to turn it into my sewing stool when I need to machine stitch.

This is a set of 14 chairs. All leather was replaced with an Italian aniline veg tanned hide. The weave and lacing were redone in the same style as the originals. Leather feet replaced the missing or damage felt feet.

This client had a sample done by a leather worker, which was badly done. I was asked to do a sample on one chair. This required choosing the right leather for the job, cutting and splitting the strips, weaving and replicating the lacing. The torn and worn felt feet were replaced with leather feet. I am glad to say that I got the contract for all 14 chairs!

A folding camp chair with leather arms, seat and back needed minor repairs and a stain removed from the seat. Stains are particularly difficult to remove (and often can't be removed) from leather. This is because leather soaks up liquids deep into the fibres.

Chinese Chair. Ok, it doesn't have any leather - but - what a wonderful piece it turned out to be after sanding, repairing and staining.

The top was replaced with hair on hide leather provided and the bottom strengthened. The lacing was replaced and holes in the base had eyelets installed to prevent further tearing. The pouffe was finally colour and was treated.

The leather had hardened in places, had stains and the straps needed replacing. The stains and hardness were treated and the old leather straps and hardware replaced

The leather had dried out, faded and worn thin. The arms of the chairs were broken at the joints. They were about to go to the skip until the client decided to try and get them fixed up.

I stripped off the old leather, repaired the arms and then recovered them with natural veg tanned leather, hand dyed to the colour with a bespoke dye made for me.

The lacing you see replicated the original lacing seen in the originals. The rivets used also replicated what was used on the originals.

The dye used was mixed for me by Northants Leather Chemicals Limited.

This is a very large table which had a vinyl inlay. I removed the vinyl, cleaned up the recess and installed the leather inlay.

These nursing chairs had been refurbished in the past. Here, I stripped them down and re-covered with leather.

Renovated foot stools. They were stripped down and the legs sanded and french polished. The covering is in genuine shearling.